If you're going to award Team EG a point for a post 45 second "disconnect" turned into a kill (making it 3-2 in the series) after you firmly stated the rule after the first apparent DDoS, then you damn well sure keep the tournament's integrity in check and award keep it rollin a point for scoring a kill on Azael after 45 seconds and make the score 3-3 going into offline games.

The first game you're referring to was actually thrown out, and Team EG won the next game which made it 3-2. Also, Keep It Rollin did not score a kill on Azael. He left the Arena while he was disconnected. Snutz was also disconnected. Both of those games were thrown out.

EDIT: If you're referring to the earlier game where Team EG scored a kill where it looked like Snutz was lagging, I really don't think you can throw that game out... but who knows, this disconnect issue is obviously uncontrollable.

First game was a draw, second one was RLS killing Cdew to make it 2-1 on Ruins, and third game was Snutz dying on Dalaran making it 2-2, no? Then on RoV, Snutz began to claim he was being DDoSed (or was being DDoS'd) and so the match was reset - after playing it again on RoV and clearly stating that after 45 seconds a point would be awarded to the other team, they awarded Team EG a point making it 3-2. On Blade's, Azael got disconnected and left the arena, thus "winning" the RLS a match, making it 3-3. But yet, they seemingly did not follow through with that strict ruling and instead claimed it would be 3-2.

It's all really shady, so in all honesty they should just reset the series to 2-2, but it is what it is.

Okay, let me give you a more educated response.

After the series was tied 2-2, and the first RoV fiasco happened - we reviewed the material that we had, to find out that indications of lag/disconnects were before the 45 second mark. Hence why the game was replayed.

EG got a kill on RoV next game (even if it was Snutz disconnecting), and went up 3-2.

Next game on Blade's Edge, Azael disconnected, and were fully prepared to take it as a loss and go 3-3, HOWEVER Snutz disconnected too. So your statement:

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On Blade's, Azael got disconnected and left the arena, thus "winning" the RLS a match, making it 3-3. But yet, they seemingly did not follow through with that strict ruling and instead claimed it would be 3-2.

is completely invalid.

I am pretty sure noone wanted to watch a 15 minute resto shaman shadow priest vs. resto shaman rogue draw... and have the series end 4-3 because of that clusterfuck, hence why we made the call to stop the game.

Do you understand now???????????????????????????????????????????

Edit: ya im mad, dont you tell us what to do to regain integrity you little poobie

I am pretty sure noone wanted to watch a 15 minute resto shaman shadow priest vs. resto shaman rogue draw... and have the series end 4-3 because of that clusterfuck, hence why we made the call to stop the game.

Do you understand now???????????????????????????????????????????

Edit: ya im mad, dont you tell us what to do to regain integrity you little poobie

No you're wrong Mugems, I agree with you that people would rather NOT want watch a 15minute draw and have the game end like that.

BUT THAT IS IRRELEVANT, You can't change a rule(s) mid-game/tournament.

You guys should of considered this outcome beforehand and made an appropriate rule for it.

That's why people are saying the integrity could be damaged because of that, if you can change a rule mid-game because an outcome that you didn't like happened, well what's to stop you doing that every time now?

Maybe a friend of yours is losing and you wanna change a rule to make them win?

Obviously I don't think that would actually happen, but it's a possibility now.

Then you should of accepted that, simple it was your own rules and you ignored them.

Whatever happened that was wrong.

Your argument really does not make sense to me.

I know I have gotten pulled over before for speeding, yet the cop let me go without a ticket because of the specific circumstances. I am sure you have faced similar scenarios in your life as well.

There is a difference between "ignoring rules" and "making a judgement call despite the rules considering the circumstances".

Anyways, I know that we will not be able to please everyone despite any call that we make. Whatever we did or do in the future, there will always be a percentage of people who will disagree. So no point in me trying to make a case.

I am just gonna leave this thread alone now and go enjoy some donuts. Good night everyone.

Although I do hear through the grapevine that a certain warlock was told there would be no restarts after the match by NAO staff members (the staff stating "it was a vote and we all agreed you were at a distinct advantage so no reset"), and said warlock was then kicked from the Skype call and another warlock joined for a few brief moments where the staff then concluded a restart would occur...

Yes we had both Snutz and Azael in our Staff Organization call to get their point of views and figure out what was going on.

After chatting with Azael, we removed him from the call, because well... he is not a part of the NAO staff, and it is standard procedure to kick people out of calls for us. We told him that we would be awarding him the match point before removing him.

And then we reviewed the material (VODs) and found that Snutz showed indications of disconnecting before the 45 second mark and hence we concluded that a restart would occur. Snutz was kicked from the call right after.

I am not sure what you are trying to claim or prove with this post to be honest.